Hugh Green (martyr)

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Hugh Green was born about 1584; martyred 19 August 1642.

His parents, who were Protestants, who sent him to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1605, but was afterwards converted to Catholicism and entered Douai College in 1610. He left again in 1612 and became a chaplain at Chideock Castle, Dorsetshire.

On 8 March, 1641, Charles I, to placate the Puritan Parliament, issued a proclamation banishing all priests from England.

He was arrested, tried, and condemned to death in August. In prison his constancy so affected his fellow-captives that two or three women sentenced to die with him sent him word that they would ask his absolution before death. They did so after confessing their sins to the people, and were absolved by the martyr.

His executioner was quite unskilled, he could not find Green's heart, and the butchery with appalling cruelty was prolonged for nearly half an hour.

After his execution, Puritans of Dorchester played football with his head.